Multiple Meeting Announcements

Date

16 December 2014

Summit Station Users/Science Coordination Office Meeting
AGU Fall Meeting
18 December 2014, 9:00-10:00 a.m. PST
San Francisco, California
Conference Announcement
6th Arctic Shipping Summit
Montreal, Canada
18-19 March 2015
Open Workshop Available
New Frontiers in Submillimetre-Wave and Far-Infrared Atmospheric Science
Cambridge, United Kingdom
10 February 2015
Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Weather and the Global Atmospheric Electric Circuit
26th International Union on Geodesy and Geophysics
Prague, Czech Republic
22 June - 2 July 2015

Summit Station Users/Science Coordination Office Meeting
AGU Fall Meeting
18 December 2014, 9:00-10:00 a.m. PST
San Francisco, California

The Science Coordination Office for Summit Station will host an open
meeting of Summit Station users during the American Geophysical Union
(AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California. The meeting is planned
for Thursday, 18 December 2014 at 9:00-10:00 a.m. PST.

This event will be held in the Arctic Community Meeting Room, located on
the 2nd floor of the San Francisco Marriott Marquis in room Foothill D.
The Marriott is located one block from the Moscone Center, at 780
Mission Street.

Organizers of the meeting will present a brief overview of recent Summit
Station long range planning developments, and have an open discussion
and question session. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

The meeting information is available at:
http://www.arcus.org/communitymeetings/agu/2014/schedule/two.

Conference Announcement
6th Arctic Shipping Summit
Montreal, Canada
18-19 March 2015

The 6th Arctic Shipping Summit will be held in Montreal, Canada on 18-19
March 2015. The theme of the meeting is 'Developments in Arctic Shipping
Operations & Infrastructure.'

The Summit will highlight the achievements of Canada's Chairmanship of
the Arctic Council and discuss the USA's forthcoming plans. It will
review the need for improvements in infrastructure and advancements in
technology as well as operational and logistical challenges encountered
by ship owners and OSV Operators in harsh Arctic conditions. It will
address key developments in transport and regulation in the Arctic as
well as commercial and safety issues.

Through presentations, roundtable discussion, and case studies, the
summit will examine practical solutions to Arctic shipping issues and
present the latest innovations of technology in this specialized area.
Key topics will include:

- What Have Canada's Main Achievements Been During Their Chairmanship
of the Arctic Council?
- As the New Chair of the Arctic Council What are the Objectives 
of the USA?
- Placing the Arctic in a Global Context
- Is the Arctic the Future of Global LNG Shipping?
- How Effective Has the Arctic Search and Rescue Agreement Been so far?
- Improving Satellite Coverage in the Northern Sea Route Area
- Commercial issues for ship operators and charterers using Arctic routes
- Future ship designs for the Arctic: What new ideas are being developed?

For further information, including the registration form, please go to:
http://tinyurl.com/6thArcticShippingSummit.

Open Workshop Available
New Frontiers in Submillimetre-Wave and Far-Infrared Atmospheric Science
Cambridge, United Kingdom
10 February 2015

An open workshop entitled 'New Frontiers in Submillimetre-Wave and
Far-Infrared Atmospheric Science' will be held at the University of
Cambridge in the UK on 10 February 2015.

The workshop is being convened as part of a pilot study to assess how
current and future developments in advanced submillimetre-wave and
far-infrared spectroscopic and radiometric imaging technology can be
used to address key challenges in observational atmospheric science. The
workshop is intended to review the scientific challenges in areas such
as atmospheric chemistry and dynamics and environmental monitoring, to
consider what basic technology and instrument development is needed over
the coming decade, and to assess how this maps onto current
technological capability and future expectations.

There will be a number of invited reviews, covering a range of science
and technology topics, some contributed talks, and ample time for
networking and discussion. Organizers anticipate a small, focused
meeting with approximately 50 participants. The workshop will begin at
9.30am and end at 4.00pm. Although some of the program has been reserved
for invited speakers, there are opportunities for 15 minute contributed
talks. All participants are asked to register by sending an email to Pam
Hadder (spectro-ice [at] mrao.cam.ac.uk) Please indicate if you wish to give
a 15 min presentation, and the subject of your proposed talk. There is
no registration fee, and lunch is provided.

For further information, please email:
spectro-ice [at] mrao.cam.ac.uk.

Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Weather and the Global Atmospheric Electric Circuit
26th International Union on Geodesy and Geophysics
Prague, Czech Republic
22 June - 2 July 2015

Organizers of session M03, entitled 'Weather and the Global Atmospheric
Electric Circuit,' invite abstract submission. The session will be
convened at the 26th International Union on Geodesy and Geophysics
(IUGG), which will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, on 22 June - 2
July 2015. The session abstract is as follows:

What potentially links the Sun and the solar wind to thunderstorms, to
some of the day-to-day variability in large-scale tropospheric dynamics,
and to clouds?

The answer is the Earth's global atmospheric electric circuit.

This session will be of interest to scientists from a range of
disciplines including atmospheric electricity, vertical atmospheric
coupling, meteorology, cloud physics, and solar-terrestrial physics.
Organizers welcome contributions that relate to atmospheric electricity
studies. This will include novel measurements and techniques for
measuring atmospheric electricity; identification of sources of
atmospheric electricity variation (including those due to ionospheric
variability driven by the solar wind); numerical modelling studies; the
effects of atmospheric electricity on cloud dynamics; signatures of
solar and solar wind variability in the lower atmosphere correlated with
atmospheric electricity variations. organizers welcome studies from all
areas of the globe but especially from remote areas, including the polar
regions.

MO3 is an International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric
Sciences (IAMAS) session, sponsored jointly by the International
Commission on Atmospheric Electricity and the International Commission
on Polar Meteorology. The conference website is
http://www.iugg2015prague.com/.

Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2015.

For further information, please contact the session conveners:
Mai Mai Lam
Email: mml [at] bas.ac.uk

Matthew Lazzara
Email: mattl [at] ssec.wisc.edu

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